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• Worried about Egypt’s old Pharaoh

   There is much concern in Western capitals about what would happen in Egypt when the aging Pharaoh, Husni Mubarak dies. He is in his mid-eighties and not in good health. He has ruled Egypt with an iron fist since he became president in October 1981 after...

• Anniversaries a grim reminder of Ummah’s plight

  Several anniversaries fall in the month of March, both local and international but it is difficult to say anything positive about them. Let us review them. In March 1924, Mustafa Kemal abolished the khilafah, breaking the last organic link with the Islami...

• Colonization of the Muslim mind

  People that refuse to surrender can never be enslaved. Slavery is first and foremost a state of mind. Steve Biko, the anti-apartheid struggler paid with his life but he became immortalised in the minds of millions for refusing to surrender. He had said, â...

• Thirty-ninth year of publishing CI…

  From the Editor’s desk...With this issue of Crescent International, we enter our 39th year of publication. While these have been exciting years, they have also not been uneventful. We have faced numerous challenges. There have been many attempts to unde...

• Thoughtful reflections on the Glorious Qur’an

  Zafar Bangah, director of the ICIT, reviews Saeed Malik’s A Perspective on the Signs of Al-Qur’an: Through the Prism of the Heart, 278 pages, Pbk: $18.99, (published in 2009 and available at www.amazon.com and www.booksurge.com).  In numerous ayaat o...